DNA

“Knock-and-spit” DNA collection is replacing “stop-and-frisk” as police departments look to expand a DNA database that could include innocent people and those who didn’t consent to DNA testing.

A new DNA survey of Loch Ness hopes to find evidence of the monster, Nessie, which could trigger a government plan developed by Scottish Natural Heritage.

A DNA test kit like 23 and Me cannot tell you where you were born, but your parents probably can.

The possibility was popularized by the film "Jurassic Park."

Researchers looked into genetic data on over 300,000 people ages 16 to 102 to learn which genes are linked to intelligence.

"Dust" is a bit of a misnomer: Moon dust is essentially tiny particles of glassy rock formed when things crash into the lunar surface and briefly melt the rocky crust.

In a time of widespread anxiety over the misuse of social media, Americans should also be concerned over who has access to their genetic information.

Scientists have found a new four-stranded knot of DNA.

Is CRISPR the miracle we've been hoping for to treat genetic brain diseases?

If your results said you could have a genetic disorder, you shouldn't panic just yet, new research suggested.

Neanderthals aren't the only ancient people that have left traces in our modern DNA.

A genetic technique could uncover potential new treatments for diseases by studying the animal kingdom.

The data for this study was actually collected nearly 20 years ago as part of a regular federal survey.

But more information is not always better, according to a geneticist.

A child’s genes, combined with their environment, will shape who they are. But parenting is part of that environment.

Nothing lasts forever, but some things, like bats, endure.

Why do we have seemingly extra amino acids in our genetic code? Quantum chemistry borrowed from space to find the answer.

When the crocs reach their full size, they become trapped inside the caves for the rest of their lives.

The device has closed 12 gaps in the known human genome.

Biologists found that the axolotl has an exceptionally long genome, with 32 billion base pairs of DNA, 10 times the number a human has. It’s the largest genome ever sequenced.

If the same rate of degeneration continues, the Y chromosome has just 4.6 million years left before it disappears completely.

"We can make structures that nobody’s ever even conceived of before; this is a true man-over-nature event.”

“This was a hugely devastating epidemic.”

Most of our historical record about the Phoenicians came from ancient Greeks and Romans—the Phoenician's arch-enemies.

Now might be a good time to try Dry January.

New evidence reveals a previously unrecorded indigenous population and poses a major challenge to existing theories about the earliest Americans.

A human rights group says China is collecting data through medical checkups in Xinjiang, a move that further adds to controls in the Muslim-majority region.

Caltech noted that it’s already been used to draw a “life-sized portrait of a bacterium and a bacterium-sized portrait of a rooster."

A major advance in synthetic biology was made public this week.

Sorry, Yeti fans—all these samples from sightings of the mythological being turned out to be real animals.